GICHD Mine Dog Testing Project - Soil Sample Results No.3 | Zendy

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GICHD Mine Dog Testing Project - Soil Sample Results No.3

Author(s) -

James Phelan,

JAMES BARNETT,

SUSAN BENDER,

Luisa Archuleta

Publication year - 2003

Publication title -

osti oai (u.s. department of energy office of scientific and technical information)

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Reports

DOI - 10.2172/809629

Subject(s) - environmental science , soil test , reliability (semiconductor) , sample (material) , mining engineering , test (biology) , soil water , engineering , geology , soil science , power (physics) , chemistry , physics , chromatography , quantum mechanics , paleontology

A mine dog evaluation project initiated by the Geneva International Center for Humanitarian Demining is evaluating the capability and reliability of mine detection dogs. The performance of field-operational mine detection dogs will be measured in test minefields in Afghanistan and Bosnia containing actual, but unfused landmines. Repeated performance testing over two years through various seasonal weather conditions will provide data simulating near real world conditions. Soil samples will be obtained adjacent to the buried targets repeatedly over the course of the test. Chemical analysis results from these soil samples will be used to evaluate correlations between mine dog detection performance and seasonal weather conditions. This report documents the analytical chemical methods and results from the third batch of soils received. This batch contained samples from Kharga, Afghanistan collected in October 2002

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